CLASSICAL RECORDINGS;Rare Treasures From Kurt Weill From: The Washington Post | Date: July 29, 1990| Author: Joseph McLellan | Copyright (null) The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Kurt Weill's first opera (now lost) was reportedly based on "an old German play about knights and their ladies" and was composed in 1910-11-not bad for a composer who was born in 1900. It probably sounded a lot like Richard Wagner, whose music was the operatic staple in the German town of Dessau, where Weill was born, the son of a Jewish cantor.

His last opera was named "Huckleberry Finn," destined for Broadway, written in collaboration with playwright Maxwell Anderson and never fi...

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